Rose
Rose
Clan Rose of Kilravock, Scotland. Descended from de ros of Normandy who settled in Wiltshire and Dorset after the Norman Conquest. A branch of the family then settled in Geddes, Scotland, where in 1290, Hugh de Ros, 1st Baron of Kilravock, married Marie, the daughter of two other Norman families, Andrew de Bosco and Elizabeth de Bisset. Hugh helped capture Invernairn Castle from the English in 1306. Hugh, the 4th baron, married Janet Chisholm, daughter of the constable of Urquhart Castle with a dowry of lands in Strathnairn. The Rose family also marshalled the Rose arms of water bougets with the boar's head of Chisholm. The seventh baron built the Tower of Kilravock in 1460, which was briefly seized by the Mackenzies in 1482. Hugh Rose, 10th Baron of Kilravock, known as the Black Baron, entertained both Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI at his home. The thirteenth baron signed the Nation Covenant and fought against the Royalists in the Civil War, but when Charles I was captured by Parliament, he led his clan in a bid to rescue him. The clan supported the Government in the 1715 Jacobite Rising, when Arthur Rose was killed trying to capture Inverness. in the 1745 Rising, the clan entertained both Prince Charles Edward Stuart and the Duke of Cumberland .
Arms: Or, a boar’s head couped gules, between three water bougets sable.
Crest: On a chapeau gules furred ermine, a harp azure.
Motto: Constant and true.
